The Failure of Asian Leadership in Silicon Valley
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The Failure of Asian Leadership
in Silicon Valley
Buck Gee Former VP/GM Cisco Systems
Member, Committee-of-100
US-ATMC Spring Seminar Stanford University
May 31, 2016
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So Who am I?
• 41 Years in Silicon Valley (1967-2008) • Engineering and Management
• Stanford BSEE, MSEE • Harvard Business School MBA
• Big Companies and Small
• Hewlett Packard, Cisco Systems • Three start up busts, three wins
Crescendo (1993), Com21 (1998), Andiamo (2004)
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Advanced Leadership Program for Asian American Executives
h"p://www.gsb.stanford.edu/exed/alp/
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The Popular Asian Narrative in Silicon Valley
Asian Americans are • 6% of U.S. population • But 52% of Silicon Valley high-tech
professional workforce
• >80% of Asian population in the Bay Area are 1st or 2nd generation
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Silicon Valley Management Pipeline (NAICS 33,51 codes)
All men
White men
Asian men
All women
White women
Asian women
SOURCE: https://www1.eeoc.gov/eeoc/statistics/employment/jobpat-eeo1/2014/index.cfm
* Only white, black, Hispanic, Asian, not including other
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Silicon Valley Racial Gaps (Men) (33,51 codes)
SOURCE: https://www1.eeoc.gov/eeoc/statistics/employment/jobpat-eeo1/2014/index.cfm
White men 1.65
Asian men 0.74
MEN: ASIAN GAP 1.23X
Normalized Management Grades
% Executives
% Professionals
All men
Black men
Hispanic men
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Silicon Valley Racial Gaps (Women) (33,51 codes)
SOURCE: https://www1.eeoc.gov/eeoc/statistics/employment/jobpat-eeo1/2014/index.cfm
White women 1.19
Asian women 0.38
WOMEN: ASIAN GAP 2.1X
Normalized Management Grades
% Executives
% Professionals
All women
Hispanic women
Black women
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Silicon Valley Gender Gap: Asian (33,51 codes)
SOURCE: https://www1.eeoc.gov/eeoc/statistics/employment/jobpat-eeo1/2014/index.cfm
Asian men 0.74
Asian women 0.38
ASIAN: GENDER GAP 0.97X
White men 1.65
White women 1.19
WHITE: GENDER GAP 0.39X
Normalized Management Grades
% Executives
% Professionals
White men
White men
Asian men
Asian women
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Cultural Profiles
India China Japan United States United Kingdom Canada
Understanding the East-West Cultural Gap *
Independent
Egalitarianism
Risk
Direct
Task
Interdependent
Status
Certainty
Indirect
Rela@onship
India Japan China Canada U.K. U.S.
Source: Aperian Global GlobeSmart Cultural Awareness Profile, 2015
* Median points, 700,000 respondents
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Data Tells a Different Asian Narrative
• Asians and Asian Americans are 52% of high-tech professional workforce
• But only 33% of its executives • “bamboo ceiling” Asian factor >> “glass ceiling” gender factor
• White men-vs-women gap: 0.39X • Women: white-vs-Asian gap: 2.1X
• Both white men and white women are more likely to be an executive than Asian men or Asian women
• Too few Asians and Asian Americans are reaching the C-suite (especially East Asians).
• Asians need to learn cultural leadership norms in Silicon Valley